Europe and International Migration - Hardcover

Collinson, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855670496 ISBN 13: 9781855670495

Publisher: Pinter Pub Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Since the end of the cold war, international migration has come to be seen as one of the most pressing issues facing Europe in the 1990s. This study takes as its starting-point the growing concern among policy-makers and the public throughout Western Europe over the issue of migration. The author places the current migration debate within a comparative perspective, in its global and historical context, outlining current broad trends in 'economic' migration, and providing some pointers to how these trends have affected Western Europe in recent decades.
The analysis highlights elements of continuity and change in states' involvement in the migration process, a theme expanded in the context of the migration and migrant 'integration' policies pursued by both sending and receiving states. This provides a backdrop for a critical examination of current moves towards the harmonization of migration policy within the EC and wider groupings in Western Europe. The author raises questions about possible future responses to the migration challenge and asks, ultimately, what is the nature of that challenge?

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Synopsis

This study takes as its starting-point the growing concern amongst policy-makers and the public throughout Western Europe over developments in the southern and eastern Mediterranean rim countries and eastern and central Europe - both areas perceived as having the potential for creating an explosive immigration crisis. The author places the current migration debate in Europe within a global and historical context. She sets current immigration trends and policies against Europe's post-war immigration experience. The author argues that present immigration flows should not be seen in isolation from past inflows, particularly when considering the reception and integration of migrants. Nor, it is argued, can international migration be separated from wider international political, economic and social processes operating between and within states (sending as well as receiving states). The study is not confined to the receiving-country side of the equation, but devotes considerable attention to pressures operating in the sending countries. The author raises questions about possible future responses to the migration challenge, and asks, ultimately, what is the nature of the challenge?

About the Author

Sarah Collinson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pinter Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1855670496
• ISBN 13: 9781855670495
• Binding: Hardcover